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the band here playing cnn. when people realize that had president obama got the second term, they said he is the son of kenya. the son of south africa. we spend some time with mama obama. she is the grandmother of president obama. we spent time watching those votes coming in. overnight last night in a house here. there is a sense of relief and of excitement. and the scenes certainly will live in the memory of these people for very, very long. one thing these people do want is the president to come visit them. he did as a senator in 2006. they want him to come in his second term as a president. she said he won an election. he has to work hard for the people who elected him but maybe when he can he should come visit me. >> are there expectations that he will do that when he finds some time? >> reporter: well, it so. i think people are realistic in the first term with the economy and the situation in the states, he couldn't come over here. when he came in 2006 as senator, it was just crazy crowds throughout kenya.
the band here playing cnn. when people realize that had president obama got the second term, they said he is the son of kenya. the son of south africa. we spend some time with mama obama. she is the grandmother of president obama. we spent time watching those votes coming in. overnight last night in a house here. there is a sense of relief and of excitement. and the scenes certainly will live in the memory of these people for very, very long. one thing these people do want is the president to...
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hilary rosen, cnn contributor, along with erick erickson, another cnn contributor. welcome. >> hello, carol. for mitt romney to win ohio, he needs to win more than the republican districts. he needs to keep down president obama's lead in cuyahoga county. i don't think that's going to be possible, but that's true. i don't -- i would be curious to know erick's view of this. bill burton made a very important point when he said that the romney campaign is really risking a lot of actual tactical and strategic momentum today in ohio by forcing the campaign to divert its resources to do events instead of getting out the vote. >> you know, i think the way they're actually structuring it, it's not that bad. they're doing small events with the poll reporters, not huge events. they'll be at airports, trying to get local media than they are actually people out from the polls. the president may do satellite hits, but romney going in person. they're going to cuyahoga not because of cuyahoga per se but the surrounding suburban counties and also get some reach over into the western
hilary rosen, cnn contributor, along with erick erickson, another cnn contributor. welcome. >> hello, carol. for mitt romney to win ohio, he needs to win more than the republican districts. he needs to keep down president obama's lead in cuyahoga county. i don't think that's going to be possible, but that's true. i don't -- i would be curious to know erick's view of this. bill burton made a very important point when he said that the romney campaign is really risking a lot of actual...
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only elsewhere. >> except on cnn. but honestly, literally anything that happens in the world, you'll blame it on president obama and i think that has disserved the country. i think it's disserved the problems we now have to go into. i'm glad we're trying to make this clear this has nothing to do with president obama. here's what most people are worried about at home, though. they still don't know how we're going to get this fiscal showdown challenge. they still don't know where the jobs will come in fr and if anybody learned anything in washington, d.c. so if we chase the ball around, barack obama killed the stock market and will kill your kid next, we'll miss an opportunity to do something. >> the reality is that americans should be focused on what's happening in europe. from a political point of view, obama has been very lucky actually over the past three months that europeans have been able to like we do in washington kick the can down the road. but if you look at the politics of greece which was on everybody's min
only elsewhere. >> except on cnn. but honestly, literally anything that happens in the world, you'll blame it on president obama and i think that has disserved the country. i think it's disserved the problems we now have to go into. i'm glad we're trying to make this clear this has nothing to do with president obama. here's what most people are worried about at home, though. they still don't know how we're going to get this fiscal showdown challenge. they still don't know where the jobs...
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cnn poll of polls. three most recent polls in ohio averaged them together, president three-point advantage. that's very, very close. that's what the public opinion polls say, jim. you're in ohio, what are you hearing? >> that's right. what i'm hearing, i talked to a top republican source close to the romney operation here in ohio, and what i was told is that you know they are confident they believe they'll win the state. it's going to be close and in the words of this republican official, very close. and so, obviously watching this state. but paul you mentioned virginia, also very interesting. mitt romney was on one of the radio stations there in northern virginia and the washington, d.c., area, wmal, earlier this morning, and he said that he may know how he's going to do tonight embasbased on what happn virginia, it's crucial to his stakes and what happens in the overall outcome later tonight. virginia's very important. but of course, it is sometimes all about ohio and this election day is shaping up t
cnn poll of polls. three most recent polls in ohio averaged them together, president three-point advantage. that's very, very close. that's what the public opinion polls say, jim. you're in ohio, what are you hearing? >> that's right. what i'm hearing, i talked to a top republican source close to the romney operation here in ohio, and what i was told is that you know they are confident they believe they'll win the state. it's going to be close and in the words of this republican official,...
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. >> cnn was able to call the race a little after 11:15 eastern time, earlier than a lot of people predicted. some people thought we would be counting all night into the wee hours of the morning. that did not happen. so how did the president put together his victory? christine romans at the magic wall. >> we are talking to you about the swing states. in the end, the president took all of them. here is nevada with its six electoral votes. he took nevada. he took colorado. paul ryan spent a lot of time in colorado really hoping that the republicans have been hoping to get that and they didn't. there's iowa. wisconsin. ohio with its 18. new hampshire. then florida. we are still waiting for. that's how the president got to 303. he needed 270. even though we have not called florida yet, mitt romney can't get over the top. >> right now the president is leading in the vote count in florida by miami-dade county as they suspended counting overnight. they will start counting in a few hours ago. the president is ahead there and could pick that up, too. >> these two states he lost. those are reliably re
. >> cnn was able to call the race a little after 11:15 eastern time, earlier than a lot of people predicted. some people thought we would be counting all night into the wee hours of the morning. that did not happen. so how did the president put together his victory? christine romans at the magic wall. >> we are talking to you about the swing states. in the end, the president took all of them. here is nevada with its six electoral votes. he took nevada. he took colorado. paul ryan...
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when candy tells us. >> all good reasons to watch cnn's election night coverage. it begins tuesday at 6:00 p.m. eastern. thank you for watching "state of the union." i'm candy crowley in washington. "fareed zakaria gps" is next for our viewers here in the united our viewers here in the united states. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
when candy tells us. >> all good reasons to watch cnn's election night coverage. it begins tuesday at 6:00 p.m. eastern. thank you for watching "state of the union." i'm candy crowley in washington. "fareed zakaria gps" is next for our viewers here in the united our viewers here in the united states. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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the rest of the nation can see it right )0c on cnn. we're getting immediate reaction and we'll get the first, latest it poll numbers. john king is standing by and we'll get reaction to the exit poll results from one of the president's top political advisers, david plouffe, joining us live from chicago. everyone in the nicu, all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days. everything that you thought was important to you changes in light of having a child that needs you every moment. i wouldn't trade him for the world. who matters most to you says the most about you. massmutual is owned by our policyholders so they matter most to us. if you're caring for a child with special needs, our innovative special care program offers strategies that can help. we'rwith questions fromtump sombing elections.kies do you know where your polling place is? maybe somewhere around my house. mine's just, right over that way. well you can find out exactly where it is using bing elections. it's a good day for politics. which way do you lean pol
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an election extravaganza with former mississippi governor haley barbour and cnn's dana bash. i'm candy crowley. this is "state of the union." >>> they are ships passing in the night and the day. this day mitt romney will be in iowa, ohio, pennsylvania, and virginia, while the president heads to new hampshire, south of florida, back up north to ohio, out west to colorado. monday romney goes to florida, virginia, ohio, and new hampshire. obama counters with wisconsin, ohio, and a closing rally in iowa. the biggest surprise in that final 48 hours is romney's last minute bid in pennsylvania. polls in the state favor president obama, but not by as much as they once did. the romney campaign calls it expanding the electoral map. the obama campaign calls it a fairy tale. well, in the parallel universe phase of the campaign. joining me is chicago mayor and former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel. let me start by showing a poll out of pennsylvania showing that the president's numbers have been slipping since september, and it's now looking like not a four-point race in pennsylva
an election extravaganza with former mississippi governor haley barbour and cnn's dana bash. i'm candy crowley. this is "state of the union." >>> they are ships passing in the night and the day. this day mitt romney will be in iowa, ohio, pennsylvania, and virginia, while the president heads to new hampshire, south of florida, back up north to ohio, out west to colorado. monday romney goes to florida, virginia, ohio, and new hampshire. obama counters with wisconsin, ohio, and...
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aspercreme. >> breaking news in to cnn. we have learned out of tucson, arizona, the federal court judge sentenced the man you see over my shoulder jared lee loughner who killed six, injured 13, back two januaries ago, sentenced to life without parole. quoting the judge here. quote, the evidence clearly shows he knew what he was doing despite mental illness. let's give you background in to the sentencing hearing because we also know this. former congresswoman giffords stood up in the courtroom today. she faced the man that tried to assassinate her firing a bullet in to her brain. her husband former astronaut shuttle commander mark kelly spoke on her behalf and kelly said, quoting him, gabby would trade her own life to bring back any one of those you savagely murdered that day. her life has been forever changed. he goes on, every day is a continual struggle to do those things she was once so good at. federal prosecutors said loughner is given life without parole. during the hearing here, one point aides helped giffords out of
aspercreme. >> breaking news in to cnn. we have learned out of tucson, arizona, the federal court judge sentenced the man you see over my shoulder jared lee loughner who killed six, injured 13, back two januaries ago, sentenced to life without parole. quoting the judge here. quote, the evidence clearly shows he knew what he was doing despite mental illness. let's give you background in to the sentencing hearing because we also know this. former congresswoman giffords stood up in the...
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back with cnn contributor and republican strategist ana navarro and cnn political analyst roland morton. >> you've got to remember the night before the election 2008 he teared up due to the death of his grandmother. and so, i wouldn't be surprised if you're talking about the night before, that being an emotional remembrance. because he pretty much was talking about the exact same thing four years ago when he was in north carolina. >> also i think for both of them, on both sides, right, for ann and mitt romney, and for president obama and michelle obama, it's exhausting. it's like running the boston marathon and you see the ribbon at the end, and you're like look, we're almost done. >> listen and also remember for president obama, this is his last campaign in his life. this is an end of a political career in that sense. so it's got to have some sort of nostalgia. but the emotion, the charged up, the scrutiny they've been under. the schedule they've been under. both of them, it's a day full of emotion. >> michelle obama, much tougher than i've heard her. >> -- defend her husband. >> let m
back with cnn contributor and republican strategist ana navarro and cnn political analyst roland morton. >> you've got to remember the night before the election 2008 he teared up due to the death of his grandmother. and so, i wouldn't be surprised if you're talking about the night before, that being an emotional remembrance. because he pretty much was talking about the exact same thing four years ago when he was in north carolina. >> also i think for both of them, on both sides,...
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cnn's martin savidge joins us from cleveland. early voting, martin, very important for the president. how's it looking where you are in cleveland right now? >> reporter: well, at least the cnn poll of the early voters seem to be going very much in president obama's favor. let me point out something here. the early voting has finally come to an end in the state of ohio. the reason i say finally is it began october 2nd. it ended at 2:00 this afternoon. the complete tallies for the state are not up. but up until friday, 1.6 million early votes were cast. of that, 1.1 million were absentee ballots. in cuyahoga county, 282,589 votes were cast. here's the number that could end up haunting the state. 1.3 million absentee ballots were sent out. so far, 1.1 million have come back. 200,000 absentee ballots still out there somewhere. the worry is that many of those ballots could actually be people who show up to vote on election day. they can do that but they'll be given a provisional ballot. we already know there's a lot of legal wrangling
cnn's martin savidge joins us from cleveland. early voting, martin, very important for the president. how's it looking where you are in cleveland right now? >> reporter: well, at least the cnn poll of the early voters seem to be going very much in president obama's favor. let me point out something here. the early voting has finally come to an end in the state of ohio. the reason i say finally is it began october 2nd. it ended at 2:00 this afternoon. the complete tallies for the state are...
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e-mail is votewatch@cnn.com or text cnn 55333. >>> margaret hoover is with us, cnn political contributor, former member of the bush white house. ryan lizza is aa national correspondent for the new yorker and cnn contributor. and cnn contributor as well. finally it's the big day. >> yay! >> she said it's birthing day. >> if you're a political consultant, this is the day we give birth. >> lot of visuals on that. all right. >>> mitt romney in new hampshire, making their final appeals last night. here is a little bit of how it went. >> it all comes down to you. it's out of my hands now. it's in yours. all of it depends on what you do. when you step into that voting booth tomorrow -- >> president obama has tried to convince you that these last four years have been a success. and so his plan for the next four years is to take all the ideas from the first four, the stimulus, the borrowing, obamacare and all that and do them all over again. he calls his plan forward. and i call it forewarned. >> you saw randi kaye a few moments ago in woodbridge, virginia, where the polls are open, with one poin
e-mail is votewatch@cnn.com or text cnn 55333. >>> margaret hoover is with us, cnn political contributor, former member of the bush white house. ryan lizza is aa national correspondent for the new yorker and cnn contributor. and cnn contributor as well. finally it's the big day. >> yay! >> she said it's birthing day. >> if you're a political consultant, this is the day we give birth. >> lot of visuals on that. all right. >>> mitt romney in new...
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. >>> keep it on cnn for special coverage. remember, president obama holding a news conference at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. wolf blitzer will be all over this covering it for you. make sure you stay tuned. >>> listen to this, another major recall for toyota. it's recalling close to 3 million cars worldwide affecting mostly 2004 to 2009 prius models. 670,000 of them were sold in the united states. you have one, right, berman? the problem here, issues with the car's steering system and their electric water pumps. toyota says no crashes or injuries have been reported. that's good news. >>> and a shake-up at the long island utility company under fire for its slow response to super storm sandy. why is chief operating officer michael hervey is resigning at the end of this year. hervey has been the target of many angered residents left in the cold for over two weeks. he's been the target from andrew cuomo as well. >>> and this entrepreneur says he's in hiding this morning as police in belize try to solve a murder case. the very, very s
. >>> keep it on cnn for special coverage. remember, president obama holding a news conference at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. wolf blitzer will be all over this covering it for you. make sure you stay tuned. >>> listen to this, another major recall for toyota. it's recalling close to 3 million cars worldwide affecting mostly 2004 to 2009 prius models. 670,000 of them were sold in the united states. you have one, right, berman? the problem here, issues with the car's steering...
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cnn's chris lawrence is at the pentagon. nick paton walsh is in beirut and brianna keilar is in our washington bureau. we're going to start with chris. we're talking about two high-level government officials ensnared in this scandal. general allen was set to become the supreme allied commander for nato. what is going to happen to him now? >> that hearing has been postponed. general allen, we're told, was already in washington, had already traveled here. that hearing was supposed to begin in just about 48 hours. now, the pentagon has asked to postpone that. right now, the inspector general is poring through between 20,000 and 30,000 pages of e-mails, allegedly inappropriate contact e-mails between general allen and jill kelley. the pieces somewhat now starting to fit together. because we know that some of the e-mails that paula broadwell sent to joe kelley sort of warned her to stay awa from some of the generals that paula broadwell accused her of being involved with. now that these names sort of are coming together, we're ge
cnn's chris lawrence is at the pentagon. nick paton walsh is in beirut and brianna keilar is in our washington bureau. we're going to start with chris. we're talking about two high-level government officials ensnared in this scandal. general allen was set to become the supreme allied commander for nato. what is going to happen to him now? >> that hearing has been postponed. general allen, we're told, was already in washington, had already traveled here. that hearing was supposed to begin...
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. >> our exit polling, cnn's exit polling showed should taxes be raised to help touch the budget deficit and 63% of exit pollers said and 63% of exit pollers said no. >> all the exit polling shows that people said yes when it comes to people over $250,000 contributing more to reduce the deficit. when you ask people whether everybody should face a tax increase, they say no. that's not what the president has called for. he has been very clear throughout this campaign. he has asked people over $250,000 to pay -- go back to clinton era rates above $250,000. it's a clear the majority of the country favors that. >> i have to ask you about that. as a republican, let's say we go back to the clinton era rates. if we do that, we can't even close this year's budget deficit. forget the debt. we can't even close this year's budget deficit. where do democrats and republicans alike start cutting? democrats and republicans alike came up with a compromise to raise the debt ceiling. whether you tell me no or yes, i genuinely believe you aall knew the super committee was going to fail and you all knew you
. >> our exit polling, cnn's exit polling showed should taxes be raised to help touch the budget deficit and 63% of exit pollers said and 63% of exit pollers said no. >> all the exit polling shows that people said yes when it comes to people over $250,000 contributing more to reduce the deficit. when you ask people whether everybody should face a tax increase, they say no. that's not what the president has called for. he has been very clear throughout this campaign. he has asked...
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i'm brooke baldwin at the world headquarters of cnn in atlanta. let's go to my friend wolf blitzer, "the situation room" starts right now. hey, wolf. >> hi, brooke. thanks very much. happening now, president obama gets down to business. he's signaling what his priorities are for term two. also, a dramatic courtroom confrontation of the former congresswoman gabrielle gifford stares down the man who tried to kill her. now that the voters have had their say, colorado's marijuana growers and would-be legal dealers face a showdown with the federal government. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> today we're getting our first inside hints about what's on the president's to-do list now that the election is over. the list includes huge issues like taxes, the deficit, headline making overseas trip and a possible shakeup of his cabinet. let's get right to our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin. she's been doing some reporting. jessica, what are you learning? >> reporter: hi, wolf. first the reports that the president is going to
i'm brooke baldwin at the world headquarters of cnn in atlanta. let's go to my friend wolf blitzer, "the situation room" starts right now. hey, wolf. >> hi, brooke. thanks very much. happening now, president obama gets down to business. he's signaling what his priorities are for term two. also, a dramatic courtroom confrontation of the former congresswoman gabrielle gifford stares down the man who tried to kill her. now that the voters have had their say, colorado's marijuana...
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joining me is cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey tuben. seems if anyplace has the potential to be a repeat of florida, it's ohio. the polls are obviously closed and if the margin of votes is narrow enough it comes down to provisional ballots and right now, that seems ripe for a legal challenge. explain. >> well, provisional ballots are what voters fill out if when they go to vote, their registration is off. there's some problem. they don't have the right i.d., they're not in the right district. so the voting authorities, they give them what's called a provisional ballot. they fill it out and then that's put in an envelope. four years ago, there were 200,000 provisional ballots. there are expected to be at least that many this year. if in a close race the provisional ballots could spell the difference, listen to this, anderson, it's ten days until they open the provisional ballots. during those ten days, the individuals who cast the provisional ballots can go to the voting places and say look, here's my i.d., here's why my vote is legitimat
joining me is cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey tuben. seems if anyplace has the potential to be a repeat of florida, it's ohio. the polls are obviously closed and if the margin of votes is narrow enough it comes down to provisional ballots and right now, that seems ripe for a legal challenge. explain. >> well, provisional ballots are what voters fill out if when they go to vote, their registration is off. there's some problem. they don't have the right i.d., they're not in the right...
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out he talked about the primary debates and he said, well, next time they shouldn't all be done by cnn and nbc, show casing liberals beating the heck out of it. first of all there were a number of debates hosted by fox news and second off all, it sounds like he's blames the media for those debates. >> anybody but himself. >> and the republican party is supposed to be a party of personal responsibility and it gives us inside how romney is a process person instead of looking at greater vision and what his campaign is about. and we saw this op piece from karl rove making similar points. >> newt gingrich got a lot of attacks in those debates but by and large, they were fair. >> he won every debate. >> it actually helped him. >> let's be graceful loser here. it's such the doubt of somebody who loses that you blame the media. you know, the republican governors' meeting got a lot of coverage by the meeting that's racing off to do 2016 that's looking who among here is the candidate. they were far more critical of romney. >> at least they did it on the record. >> on the record. amy holmes, tara
out he talked about the primary debates and he said, well, next time they shouldn't all be done by cnn and nbc, show casing liberals beating the heck out of it. first of all there were a number of debates hosted by fox news and second off all, it sounds like he's blames the media for those debates. >> anybody but himself. >> and the republican party is supposed to be a party of personal responsibility and it gives us inside how romney is a process person instead of looking at...
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on this day before election day, with president obama just one point ahead in the latest cnn poll of polls, they're both bringing out the big guns. kid rock will take the stage tonight with mitt and ann romney and the president has been on the road today with not one but two music superstars, bruce springsteen opening for mr. obama. ♪ >> and jay-z playing a version of one of his biggest hits. ♪ >> tonight it all comes down to two men making their cases to the nation. listen to president obama in columbus, ohio earlier. >> the future's what we're fighting for. the future never has lobbyists like the status quo does, but the dreams of those children will be our saving grace. that's why i need you, ohio. to make sure their voices are heard. >> today, mitt romney said he would keep campaigning even on election day, with stops in ohio and pennsylvania. here's what he told the crowd in ohio a little while ago. >> accomplishing real change is not something i just talk about. it's something i've done and it's what i'm going to do when i'm president of the united states with your help. >>
on this day before election day, with president obama just one point ahead in the latest cnn poll of polls, they're both bringing out the big guns. kid rock will take the stage tonight with mitt and ann romney and the president has been on the road today with not one but two music superstars, bruce springsteen opening for mr. obama. ♪ >> and jay-z playing a version of one of his biggest hits. ♪ >> tonight it all comes down to two men making their cases to the nation. listen to...
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bank colleague, who talked off camera about whether the company's emphasis was on job creation told cnn, quote, we were in the business of creating value for investors. >> was job creation or making money the goal? >> well, every business is organized to create a return for the people who invest in the business. and as businesses are successful and profitable, they're able to hire people. and they can hire more people the more successful they are. businesses are created to provide a return to the owners or the investors. and it has a wonderful byproduct -- it employs more and more people. that's the nature of american enterprise. >> ten years into his run at bain capital, romney decided it was time to leave business for politics, just as his father had done. >> i will work very hard to make sure that everybody gets a good job. >> how are you feeling? >> energized, enthusiastic. >> romney's target, senator ted kennedy. not exactly starting at the bottom of the ladder there. >> i told my colleagues at work, don't clean up my desk or move into my office. i'll be spending time away from wor
bank colleague, who talked off camera about whether the company's emphasis was on job creation told cnn, quote, we were in the business of creating value for investors. >> was job creation or making money the goal? >> well, every business is organized to create a return for the people who invest in the business. and as businesses are successful and profitable, they're able to hire people. and they can hire more people the more successful they are. businesses are created to provide a...
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bank colleague, who talked off camera about whether the company's emphasis was on job creation told cnn, quote, we were in the business of creating value for investors. >> was job creation or making money the goal? >> well, every business is organized to create a return for the people who invest in the business. and as businesses are successful and profitable, they're able to hire people. and they can hire more people the more successful they are. businesses are created to provide a return to the owners or the investors. and it has a wonderful by-product. it employs more and more people. that's the nature of american enterprise. >> ten years into his run at bain capital, romney decided it was time to leave business for politics, just as his father had done. >> i will work very hard to make sure that everybody gets a good job. >> how are you feeling? >> energized, enthusiastic. >> romney's target, senator ted kennedy. not exactly starting at the bottom of the ladder there. >> i told my colleagues at work, don't clean up my desk or move into my office. i'll be spending time away from work
bank colleague, who talked off camera about whether the company's emphasis was on job creation told cnn, quote, we were in the business of creating value for investors. >> was job creation or making money the goal? >> well, every business is organized to create a return for the people who invest in the business. and as businesses are successful and profitable, they're able to hire people. and they can hire more people the more successful they are. businesses are created to provide a...